Correlation between radiographic knee osteoarthritis and lifetime cigarette smoking amount in a Korean population: A cross-sectional study

• Published in: Medicine (Baltimore) Vol. 99; no. 26; p. e20839
• Main Authors: Kim, Jung Woo, Lee, Sang Yoon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc 26.06.2020; Wolters Kluwer Health
• Subjects: Aged; Body Mass Index; Cigarette Smoking - adverse effects; Cigarette Smoking - epidemiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Observational Study; Odds Ratio; Osteoarthritis, Knee - classification; Osteoarthritis, Knee - diagnosis; Osteoarthritis, Knee - epidemiology; Prevalence; Radiography - methods; Radiography - statistics & numerical data; Republic of Korea - epidemiology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Republic of Korea

Although the inverse correlation between smoking and degenerative arthritis is controversial, quantitative analysis of the correlation between lifetime cigarette smoking amount and degenerative arthritis has not been performed. We investigated the correlation between knee radiographic osteoarthritis...